Arnold Pick
Czech physician
Born on: July 20, 1851Died on: April 4, 1924
Aged: 72 years 259 days (872 months)
Nationality: Czech
Birth Sign: Cancer
Arnold Pick was a Czech-German psychiatrist. He is known for first describing clinical features of frontotemporal dementia between 1892 and 1906. The disorder he described was given the name Pick's disease in 1922.
This term is now reserved for the behavioral variant of frontal temporal dementia that shows the presence of the characteristic Pick bodies and Pick cells, which were first described by Alois Alzheimer in 1911.
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